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- Life without limits?
Robert Westbook on Christopher Lasch’s critique of the modern rejection of limits - Infrastructures of addiction
Christopher Lasch on the subversive effects of the expectation of novelty - The past as presence, not souvenir
Historian Christopher Lasch on the importance of recognizing our dependence on the past - Materialism and the problem of mind
David Bentley Hart on the evasiveness implicit on all efforts to explain away human consciousness - Dreary atheist fundamentalism
David Bentley Hart defends the naturalness of religious belief against the assertions of the Naturalists
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- ANDREW WILSON, author of Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West, on a transformative year for Western civilization
- KYLE WILLIAMS, author of Taming the Octopus: The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation, on the history of the corporation and implications of corporate personhood
- ANDREW SPENCER, author of Hope for God’s Creation: Stewardship in an Age of Futility, on a proper understanding of the relationship between humans and Creation
- LANDON LOFTIN, co-author (with Max Leyf) of What Barfield Thought, on Owen Barfield and the evolution of consciousness
- ESTHER LIGHTCAP MEEK, author of Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity, on generative encounters with reality
- ANDREW DAVISON on the work of E. L. Mascall